Trainee Journalists Encouraged to Tweet

Social networking upstart, Twitter has made the jump to academia's hallowed halls, with 'tweets' made compulsory writing for will-be journalists at an Australian university.

Jacqui Ewart, a senior lecturer at Griffith University, points out that, “Some students' tweets are not as in depth as you might like. But I don't know if getting them to write an essay is any more beneficial,"

"Quite surprisingly, a lot of students didn't know what Twitter is. There were a couple of really vocal students who were saying they couldn't believe we were using it and thought it was a waste of time." says Ewart.

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